e.g., I bang my head on the wall. It hurts my head and doesn't dent the wall. If I repeat the experiment on the same place of the same wall within a few minutes, there is an overwhelming chance that it will still hurt my head and will still not dent the wall.Rhuby, this is as close to a perfectly clear and generally understandable description of reality as I ever expect to find.
Of course if you
persisted in banging your head against the same place on the same wall, you'd probably start to acclimatise, and the wall would start to weaken. Eventually you would end up knocking a hole in the wall without hurting your head.
Thereby proving that long-term prediction (or deciding present consequences on the basis of ancient historical analogies) isn't such a good idea.
Or perhaps that we should never underestimate the stubborn eccentricity of our race.
"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise"
- but then again, he might just get lucky.
